Inspirational Design and Technology Celebration Evening!
It was a truly inspiring experience to be able to attend this year’s annual Design and Technology Celebration Evening hosted by our dedicated Head of Faculty Mr Chalkley and...
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It was a truly inspiring experience to be able to attend this year’s annual Design and Technology Celebration Evening hosted by our dedicated Head of Faculty Mr Chalkley and...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As always Head of Beech House Miss Pattni inspired and challenged us in her House Assembly this week. Under the theme of Knowledge she asked us all to consider gaining greater...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our super-friendly welcoming BMS Buddies have once again played a key part in our hugely important transition meetings with new Year 6 students and parents who will be joining us...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
With most of our hardworking and dedicated Year 11 students completing their final GCSE exam last Friday there were lots of hugs, handshakes and smiles as they came out of the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was inspiring to see over 400 students and staff listening so intently to Advanced Skills Leader and top teacher Ms Knowles lead the Main School Assembly this week for Year 7...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Caterlink (our catering contractors) continue to respond to student voice as they seek to provide the best possible food reflecting the highest quality and also value for money....
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was brilliant to see some very powerful live marking in action in Mrs Ahmed’s Year 7 maths lesson on Monday of this week. Under the topic of equations with brackets students...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As many of you are aware throughout the year, every half term, each faculty is asked to nominate one student from each year group to receive a prestigious High Achiever Award...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to hear from one of our specialist Geography teachers at the start of this week in our Monday Magic Moment at Staff Briefing. Outlining his strategies (tailored to...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Conducting a joint learning walk around some of our Performing and Visual Arts classrooms on Wednesday afternoon of this week was a really inspiring moment in time. In music the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner


Everyone who attended the event praised the effort and dedication of the staff who work so hard to ensure that all students reach their true potential in this specialist area of our school.
The students themselves were on hand to explain the full design briefs behind their creations and some of the very intricate obstacles and challenges that they had to overcome along the way.
Each project often had a really important cross curricular theme linking with the design brief – for example a healthy eating twist as depicted in the Key Stage 3 packaging scheme of learning.
I would like to thank all the hard working staff and key leaders across the Design and Technology Faculty especially Mr Chalkley and Miss Pattni for arranging and organising such a superb event that was enjoyed by so many staff, students, parents and carers.

It was a real pleasure to see the year 7 students working so well in their D&T lessons this week. Throughout the year the students will have the opportunity to experience...
Over the past few weeks, our students have been working on the D&T monster project. They were asked to challenge themselves by creating their very own monstrous characters...